FLV Player updated
Monday 3 October 2005 – Filed under: FLV Player – 29 Comments
I have been working on a new version of FLV Player. The most important change is the ability to play On2 VP6 encoded FLV files. Other improvements include a resizable window and zoom 1x/2x buttons to allow for quick jumping to the FLV’s original size (after resizing FLV Player’s window, for example) and to look at your .flv file at 200% zoom. Version 1.3.2 and later also supports loading an FLV file or stream from either a regular webserver or an RTMP streaming server.
* Download the latest version FLV Player.
FLV Player is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista. An OS X version is in the works, no info on a release date yet.
This new version is based on Flash Player 8 and utilises the default Macromedia FLV Playback component, which uses a slightly customised skin (blue instead of green highlights). FLV Player is built with Screenweaver Open Source, which is still in beta, so your mileage may vary. Let me know if you encounter unexpected results. Or, even better, join the Screenweaver Open Souce initiative and help us create an even better version of Screenweaver!
One often requested feature that hasn’t been incorporated yet is the “fullscreen” option, Partly because I need some additional time to work on that specific ability, partly because I’m not sure if it’s that usefull. Playing FLV’s fullscreen is very CPU intensive. I think the zoom 2x feature and the resizeable window will suffice for now, but if you’d really like a fullscreen option, drop me line in the comments.
An important note to keep in mind: FLV Player uses the Macromedia Flash 8 FLV Playback component to play .flv files with. This component functions best when your .flv contains valid metadata. All .flv files created with recent encoders such as Macromedia Flash 8 Video Encoder have their metadata injected automatically. However, if you wish to view older .flv files they may not contain up-to-date metadata. I highly recommend you use Buraks FLV Metadata Injector to automatically inject correct metadata into those files.
This program is the fruit of my spare time. This means there may be some glitches, rough edges and other minor and/or major annoyances you may discover. Please tell me about issues you encounter, so I can fix them and please understand that my time and attention isn’t dedicated 100% to maintaining and supporting this free, open source project. Feel free to download the source files and improve upon them.
1 FLV Player is a Windows only application. However, if Screenweaver Open Source is made available on OS X, rest assured that I will start working on an OS X version in that case.
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Wednesday 5 September 2007 at 23:22
Hi there I was wondering if you knew a way to make it so that when i open an flv stream through my browser your player would play it instead of the default flash player 9. Any help would be much appreciated.
Wednesday 2 April 2008 at 19:45
Cheers for the proggie mate:)
Saturday 12 April 2008 at 19:33
Metin, you can right click on the .flv file, select Open With > Choose Program, Select the FLV Player or select Browse if it’s not there, and don’t forget to tick “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file”. The next time you double click on any FLV file, it’ll use this FLV Player to open it up.
Tuesday 20 May 2008 at 19:37
I really like the ability to play On2 VP6 encoded FLV files
Friday 23 May 2008 at 13:18
source files link is dead
Sunday 25 May 2008 at 16:51
Hey there John, just a question on the FLV Player 2.0, does it normally lag when you go to a bigger size then X1 (zoom 1), or would it just be my computer (being slow)? Also, adding a ‘play-list’ to allow us to play multiple movies at a time would be a great addition to this wonderful player (check out the ‘VLC Media Player’ on Google to get more ideas). If you can figure it out, then that would be great, but if it’s too hard, then don’t worry about it. You’ve done a great job already, and it must be damn difficult for you to keep this up and running for FREE. Keep up the good work.
Saturday 7 June 2008 at 17:10
download the source files is disabled, http://www.martijndevisser.com/download/flvplayer/flvplayer_sources.zip
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Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 17:05
source is dead
Thursday 31 July 2008 at 20:52
can i download source file ?
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Wednesday 12 November 2008 at 14:11
I downloaded the new version – mistake! The old version allowed me to right click and select ‘always on top’. the new version doesn’t alow it. Where can I get the old version back?
Thursday 27 November 2008 at 16:38
thank you for allow me watch you tube
Sunday 4 January 2009 at 13:20
Here is a great article on how to play FLV files on Windows Media Player.
Monday 5 January 2009 at 04:55
Can I save the movie I see ? for example in a stream of a tv channel I really would like to save the stream on a .flv file or .asf file
Thank You! The player is great
Monday 5 January 2009 at 05:07
I must say also that your work is being copied by some guys . I dont´t know if it has your autorization or not but the player is called Applian flash player and it is the same player the only difference is that it´s on a Light Green really irritating color….
Here’s the link to it >>> http://www.applian.com/flvplayer/
Be very carefull if you download anything from them. They try to install vicious things that hook up your internet conection always trying to connect from and back. Also they put on the installation of flvplayer an horrible toolbar . That thing trys to get our mp3s and thrys to connect with something. To me I have only one word for those people… Hackers…
Friday 9 January 2009 at 09:39
Applian is using a “white label” version of flv player, no rip-off
Thursday 15 January 2009 at 09:11
Many thanks for the player, installed in moments, hassle free. Your generosity is much appreciated.
Monday 2 February 2009 at 11:10
Dear Martin,
Browsing through some forums and replies regarding FLV Player, I came across a few users who gave it a thumbs-down. The remark was (almost) invariably the same “I got nothing but ‘failed to load, failed to download…’ messages” they wrote.
Since I was experiencing the same problem with various flv files, I did some (beta?)-testing.
My Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is as follows:
1 – I watch a small video at let’s say YouTube.
2 – When the clip is completely finished, I open my cache directory.
— This one is sorted to the date column and shows the latest items cached.
— That means the clip is always close to the top. (eg XFgh7rj5odjy)
3 – I copy the clip-file to my vid-clip directory.
4 – I switch to my vid-clip directory and
— rename the copied ‘XFgh7rj5odjy’ to ‘Dog World.flv’
5 – I press Enter and get “failed to load Dog World”
HOWEVER, when I open a file called “CheerLeadersGalore” first (which plays no problem) and IMMEDIATELY afterwards open Dog World, it plays too!
So after some tinkering and thinking (and coffee) I went overmy vid-clip files and discovered that all the files IN ONE WORD played without a hitch!
But the filenames WITH SPACES failed to load directly, and could only be loaded indirectly as described above.
Maybe this will help in improving an already quasieperfectprogram
(no spaces intented! lol)
Apart from that, congratulation. Great little proggie!
Sombat
Tuesday 3 February 2009 at 04:28
can i download player on mobile nokia 6233
Monday 9 February 2009 at 12:22
@Sombat Kanana – thanks for the extensive feedback. I”l investigate on this. Weird that first time opening fails, but subsequent openings work ok Could be some hickup in mProjector? I’ll have alook!
Wednesday 18 February 2009 at 08:04
Hi, I need to play .flv with sync Ppt images: can you tell me if flv-player have this feature embebbed?
Wednesday 8 April 2009 at 11:12
FLV player is awesome.
I wrote an article “Softwares, programs that can play FLV (Flash video) on computer” – http://flash-video-player.blogspot.com/2009/02/softwares-programs-that-can-play-flv.html
Welcome to post comment to it.
Friday 17 April 2009 at 19:56
+1 for full screen playing. May not be able to be used by everyone, but for those of us who can use it, it is a nice little bonus.
Thursday 4 June 2009 at 08:26
Dude, like the admin said:
“feel free to remove this project form the listing, as it it no (longer) open-source. “
Can you please?
It’s kind of misleading.
Here it is:
http://osflash.org/flvplayer2
Thursday 4 June 2009 at 08:33
PS @stradivariuus:
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http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_toc.html
Saturday 6 June 2009 at 14:46
I need to play .flv with sync Ppt images: can you tell me if flv-player have this feature embebbed?
Tuesday 9 June 2009 at 08:29
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